MUSEU DAS MISSÕES: DIALOGUE AND IDENTITY IN THE MUSEUM ARCHITECTURE

Diálogo e identidade na arquitetura dos museus

Abstract

The museum as a building for its historical trajectory, acts as a container for storing objects,
whether they are art or science and technology articles. Thus, the museum acts as like a
container of a major actor, its content. This scenario, necessarily assumes a posture in relation
to its content in order to dialogue with it or not. The Museu das Missões case is an interesting
example of two areas of heritage conservation strategy, the objects of memory and architecture,
put into dialogue. The relationship between container and content established in this museum
is a contextual identity relationship. This research shows the importance of the rich relationship
of dialogue between architectural heritage and other material heritage, making it clear that interpreting either independently would not be as rich as the way the assembly was maintained by
design strategy adopted.